Pain or tightness in the shoulder area often reflects a person’s overall emotional and physical state. A stressful lifestyle, emotional strain, physical injuries, and fatigue can contribute to constriction and pain in the shoulders. When we experience people’s actions and behaviors toward us as aggressive or controlling, it makes us feel powerless, angry, resentful or out of control. If negative emotions are not released, they can become toxic to the entire system, leading to all sorts of complications.

“Stiffness in the area of the shoulder blades usually reveals you are going in the wrong direction in life, or you are doing something in life that isn’t serving your highest purpose. This is actually a positive and predictive pain, showing that you either need to make an adjustment in your life direction or that an important change is about to come into your life and you will have to adjust to align yourself to this new change or direction. This may involve letting go of some old ways of thinking and behaving and adapting to newer, higher ways of thinking and behaving. The change will take place when you become aligned, at which point the energy between the spleen and small intestine meridians will flow freely, removing the blockage between the two. It is the blockage of energy between the two meridians, found in the area of the shoulder blades, that causes the feeling of resistance and lack of mobility.” Emotion and Healing in the Energy Body ~ Robert Henderson

Shoulder pain is quite a complex multifaceted pain as there are six meridians moving through this area. The six *meridians are: the lung, large intestine, pericardium, triple heater, small intestine, and heart meridian. These six different types contain a mixture of emotional, mental, and behavioural energies, which manifest as different types of physical pain. These energies cause rigidness, and a sense of heaviness and stagnation in the muscles surrounding the lines of these meridians. This stagnated energy is like a wall protecting hurtful feelings, but can also force us into isolation and separation. Separation from life causes depression, anger, and the inability to forgive a painful past—this could cause hardness and tightness in the rotator cuff and surrounding muscles.

(*The meridians are pathways or networks in which the Chi and blood of the human body are circulated, nourishing skin, muscles, tendons and bones. The meridians pertain to the internal organs of the body, forming a lattice network and linking the tissues and organs into a whole. Externally the twelve meridians connect with the skin, joints, limbs and other superficial tissues of the body. Normal functioning of the various organs ensures a form of balance can be maintained.)

When we feel run down from the way we’re living, we often underestimate our ability to cope with so many responsibilities; we overburden ourselves. This results in feeling anxious, stress and tired, taking a toll on our upper back and shoulders. Shoulder pain can also be caused by being too set in our ways, rebelling against change and resisting new possibilities and perspectives. When we resist, we tense our upper body as a means of trying to maintain control. Wanting to control things, people, and events, often results in chronic tension of the hands, arms, and shoulders. Also, negative self-talk and berating oneself causes tightness in the body, especially the shoulders, trapezius, sides of the neck, below the rib cage and the solar plexus.

Stiffness in the shoulders can also mean we are unable to see our options clearly, we are frustrated by our personal limitations and tormented by either indecision or of making the wrong decision. This creates a tremendous feeling of stiffness and pressure and the desire to escape from deciding.

Pain at the bottom edge of the scapula is caused by taking on, but not releasing the woes of others. In relationships it is the pain of giving yourself to someone who doesn’t love or care about you. It can symbolize emotional sadness from living a life that shouldn’t have turned out the way it did. You cringe at problems and love to complain how others are making your life difficult but rarely take personal responsibility or do anything to change it. On a spiritual level, There is a tendency to ignore the callings of your own spirit due to a lack of trust.

With frozen shoulder, you may literally feel frozen and trapped in your current circumstances. This can make you feel helpless and disempowered especially with authority figures.

“It is time to establish your limitations and personal needs and take on your shoulders only what corresponds to what you want for yourself. Take care of yourself as if you were someone you cared about. Understand that you alone put pressure on yourself; others will respect your needs when you learn to respect them yourself. Allow yourself to be flexible, embrace anyone or anything you want, and let go of your belief to the heart. The consequences will be harsh.” YOUR BODY IS TELLING YOU: LOVE YOURSELF ~ Lise Bourbeau

UPPER ARM PAIN

Your upper arm is composed of the humerus, a thick bone surrounded by dense layers of muscle that enable you to life heavy objects. Your forearm is composed of the radius and ulna. The hands and arms are pathways for many nerves and meridian channels.

“In general, the upper arms, along with the elbows, forearms, wrists, and hands, are energetic extensions of the heart. Their condition is mirrored in the condition of the heart. If the heart is weak or closed, they will be weak or closed to. Similarly, the condition of the energy in the arms, reflects back to the heart. Thus if there are blocks in energy in the arms, elbows, forearms, wrists, and hands the heart becomes blocked too. For the heart to be free, the upper arms, elbows, forearms, wrists, and hands need to be free. Pain in the upper arms, elbows, forearms, wrists, and hands reveal a blockage in the energy flowing from the heart. This is the root of all arm pain. Arm pain indicates your heart is in pain.” Emotion and Healing in the Energy Body ~ Robert Henderson

Four meridians run through the arms and are attributed to the heart (heart, small intestine, triple heater and pericardium meridian) This is why the arms, in general, are intimately connected to our emotions and actively express our inner feelings.

Our upper arms are used to express strength, power and confidence. Powerful upper arms express strength and power; they help us to defend and block; and to protect our heart and our inner organs from being hurt.

Sometimes it is necessary to exert ourselves with assertion and aggression but many people are afraid of asserting themselves because to do so allows powerful feelings to surge through them. Thus, out of fear, many of us withdraw from letting this energy flow forward, repressing our powerful feelings. We have dissociated ourselves from ourselves and from actively reaching out and grasping hold of life. The problem with this is it causes anger at others for not seeing our needs and anger at ourselves for our inability to assert our desires.

Long-held resentments, anger, bitterness, fear, guilt, etc., all play a role in debilitating our energy in the upper arms. Instead of letting our heart energy flow forward, we withdraw and hold it back. Also, some men and women overdevelop these muscles, which metaphysically can symbolize, resistance of expressing their heartfelt energy.

Upper arm pain, metaphysically, means our personal power, and self-esteem is somehow being restricted. These issues could involve feelings of inadequacy, lack of ‘emotional intimacy’, and difficulty expressing/releasing emotions. People with painful upper arms could suffer from passive-aggressive tendencies, indicating that whatever they try to suppress and control due to fear, shame, guilt, etc., will eventually find their way to the surface.

THORACIC/SHOULDER AREA

The 12 vertebrae of the thoracic spine curve outward, strategically placed between the two inward curves of the neck and back. Together, the upper and lower ends of the thoracic spine are subject to stress as is the center of this curving area. The thoracic spine is an intrinsic part of the rib ‘cage’ aptly named as the housing for the lungs and heart, both as protection and for deep breathing in and out.

Just above the thoracic spine is the cervical vertebrae C6 and C7. Metaphysically these also apply to a stiff neck, shoulder pain, frozen shoulder and elbow issues….

“C6 – Feeling overwhelmed by worries, anxieties and stresses. Rather than dealing with your own issues, meddling in other people’s lives to fix their problems and take attention away from yours. Resisting life, feeling stuck, afraid to let go of old fears and change…

Many occupations are known to create and reinforce shoulder tensions. Typing, working at a desk, or working at a machine or computer can cause shoulder tension. When you slump your breathing gets shallow and tensions develop. The shoulders are the repository for much of our tension and stress. Eventually the tension becomes chronic, contributing to fatigue, and this also affects other parts of the body. Chronic shoulder tension can inhibit the circulation to the arms and legs, causing cold hands and feet.

The thoracic spine is an integral part of shoulder function. This is the part of the back that stresses from spinal posture and movement and neurological tension felt in the heart and lungs. Long periods of working bent over and poor posture add even more to the problem. Besides severe shoulder and rib strains the thoracic spine tends towards rigidity, with a loss of flexibility and the development of excess forward or sideways curves (scoliosis) The upper back is a frequent area for muscular spasm and nagging pain; it often radiates to front of the body mimicking heart or lung conditions. Ribs are attached, via cartilage to the breastbone, these attachments are subject to stiffness, soreness or inflammation (costochondritis).

“Upper back: This area is behind the heart, so expresses the back side of the heart energy: anger, resentment, resistance, to loving expression, fear or rejection of love. This can be seen in the dowager’s hump an accumulated mass of tissue that can be formed by repressed and frustrated mind states. This part of the back is also a part of the shoulders, so the energy expressed here is connected to our confusion and inability to be doing what we really want to. This is the first stage after conception, so here lies our uncertain purpose, our thwarted ambition, our unfulfilled longing to do or be something different. Pain here is to do with the load we are carrying but not acknowledging openly, the hidden load of repressed and negative feelings. Acne in this area is repressed anger or irritation trying to find release. Often this is because we have become separated from who we really are and what our deeper feelings are. Here also we will experience resentment towards someone who is a ‘pain in the back’; or we will want to turn our back on someone, thereby turning our heart away from them.” The Bodymind Workbook ~ Debbie Shapiro

The shoulders are quite resourceful in willingly moving and overcoming obstacles, even in the face of adversity. Their appearance appears ‘broad enough’ to carry the whole body confidently; it’s just when things become too overwhelming, from too many responsibilities that the shoulders hunch in defiance and start to complain. When the shoulders become defiant, the thoracic muscles contract from shouldering too much. The upper back is where memories of hurt feelings, along with those of fear, guilt, shame and emotional confusion are stored; it’s also where lost desires are deeply buried.

The more we keep our feelings and struggles to ourselves, the more tense and rigid the shoulders will become. How many of you with shoulder pain are doing what you really want to do in your lives? Are you really free to express yourself; are you coming from a space of loving and caring? Are you with someone who you’d love to hug with all your might? Do you really want to participate in life, or is fear holding you back and causing you to procrastinate? Are you afraid to be yourself, to act freely, to do what you want? Do you pull back, withdrawing or holding back personal ideas as a way of avoiding a confrontation? Are you worried about what others may think? All this mental tension and/or guilt and fear cause inflammation to your shoulders. The muscles then change, twist and turn to accommodate these misshapen emotions. With hunched shoulders, you may feel overburdened by the weight of life’s problems, or from the guilt from past actions. Or do your shoulders immediately become rigid with fear and anxiety; made worse by uncertainty and insecurity.

Shoulders held back, pushing the chest out front tend to stiffen from determined stance. So does leaning forward, frantically trying to get a point across and even sticking ones’ neck out in another’s face. You have to stop belittling yourself and trying to control your world. The more you do this, the more your thinking will become distorted and jumbled .. when this happens you’ll have trouble making decisions or taking action.

“From the spine across the shoulders and down to the hands is our doing centre: how we feel about what we are doing, about what is being done to us, about our capability to handle our lives. This area also represents our desire to express ourselves: through the use of our hands we can express our innermost artistic and creative energies; through our arms and hands we can share our love and giving energy from the heart; through caressing, touching and holding we can reach out, pull in or push away.

The shoulders express this on the inner levels – specifically our deeply personal feelings about what we are doing, or what is being done to us. How many of us are really doing what we want to done? And how often are we in real conflict about what we should be doing. It is here that we carry our burdens, begrudgingly doing something even if we don’t really want to, or holding on to guilt and negative emotions from the past to do something we have already done. A ‘cold shoulder’ can be an emotional cold we are experiencing within ourselves towards someone or something, or it may be a cold shoulder being directed towards us from someone else.

The arms move this doing energy outwards, from our inner feelings and desires to their expression in the world. The elbows give flexibility and grace to this flow of energy, adding the necessary effort to ensure manifestation. The wrists move it out further. A conflict in the wrist can indicate there is something we should be or want to be doing but are not; for some reason, we are holding back from that final expression” Deb Shapiro ~The BodyMind Workbook

Pain specifically indicates the pain of not opening your heart. We accumulate everything that has happened to us or things we have done that have prevented or blocked our hearts from opening. For example, blaming others-usually our parents-for our own condition in life. By blaming our parents, we are not forgiving them. By not forgiving them, we are not loving them. Which means we don’t love us, which prevents our hearts from opening.

Upper arm pain is often complex, multilayered intense pain, as the energy that is causing the discomfort runs through six meridians in the upper arm. The lung, large intestine, pericardium, triple heater, small in test time, and heart meridians. The types of subtle mental energy running through these meridians can be a mixture of the emotional, mental, and behavioural energies, and could manifest as different types of physical pain emotional energies running through these meridians are usually whole energies, such as loneliness, sadness about life, or the experience of having to live in a loveless marriage. These energies cause contraction, coldness, and heaviness in the muscles surrounding the running of these meridians. Other emotional energies such as hatred for life or anger and apparent or spouse who has never loved you, cause hardness and tightness in the muscles. When the pain of life hurts you to the core of your very being, the accumulated energies can work themselves into these humorous bone itself can be quite intense. Mental and behavioural energies running through the six meridians that blocked the heart from opening the energies of on forgiving this, the need to inflict pain on someone who has hurts you, the need to build a wall of protection around yourself against an unloving parent or spouse, or blaming others for your own circumstances. These energies cause hardness and tightness in the muscles surrounding the running of these meridians. One specific behavioural energy, the one you use it in the holding on to your painful past, causes compression, pain, and weakness in the triceps, to which runs the large in test time Meridian, the energetic function of which is to let go of the past. Impression in the triceps causes the arm to weaken when you try to raise it above your head.

Opening the heart, whether through Reiki (and other forms of healing), yoga, myofascial release, therapeutic massage, etc., will help the meridians in the upper arm to open. If you felt unloved as child and struggle with love now, opening the meridians may cause intense pain at first but will then trigger a release of pain from other areas of the body. Where you’ll notice most of your pain is attached to might be: the deltoid muscles, the rotator cuff, the bottom of the scapula, between the shoulder blades, fronts of the fourth chakra, the back of the fourth chakra. If you are at stage of beginning spiritual counselling, massage or yoga practice you may find that you are not only releasing hurtful energies from your own past but also from the past of your parents.

Emotionally, the heart will only open after the lung, large intestine, pericardium, triple heater, small intestine, and heart meridians have opened energetically. This process takes time, patience, understanding, and forgiveness. When the heart meridian opens, it releases an enormous amount of heat and warmth running along the inside of the upper and lower arm, through the wrist, and out through the centre of the hand. It is a wonderful energy.

DIAPHRAGM BREATHING

When we’re stressed, our muscles contract causing the blood in our system to stop flowing properly, disconnecting our upper and lower energies of the body. The muscle responsible for connecting our upper and lower chakras is a large dome shaped muscle called the diaphragm, which is directly under the lungs. When we take a deep breath, the diaphragm stretches out to allow air into the lungs. As you exhale, the diaphragm curves inwards and upwards to help force all the unwanted air out of the lungs. The diaphragm is one of the most under-used muscles of the body, reason being, most of us breathe from the upper part of the chest, instead of letting the diaphragm do its work.

Many of us when stressed become chest breathers. What happens when we do this, we tighten our abdominal muscles creating a mild form of hyperventilation (discharging too much carbon dioxide from the blood). This causes the heart to work harder.

Many of the restrictions in your breath come from muscles tightened in a holding pattern. Our old tensions and pains cause us to move our muscles less. They become taut when we feel disappointed or disillusioned or betrayed, deflated or defeated. Diaphragmatic breathing eases the process of letting go, of releasing unnecessary emotional attachments so life can flow more easily.

If you can do 15 minutes of conscious breathing each day, in just a few weeks your breathing will shift permanently into your lower abdomen. The deeper you breathe into the center of your body, the more you’re whole body will participate in the process, restoring balance to your whole system. You’ll feel calm and energized as this new energy breaks up old habits and patterns and flows freely, through your body.

SHOULDER ROLLS

stand with your feet slightly apart and your arms at your sides.

breathe in and draw both shoulders back and upward toward your ears as high as you can without forcing or straining.

as you exhale, roll your shoulders down and forward to the starting position.

as you do this gentle movement slowly and smoothly, relax your shoulders, feeling the tension being released from the muscles.

repeat up to 10 times, 3 – 5 times a day (from the excellent book HEALING BACK PAIN NATURALLY by Art Brownstein M.D.)

18 Responses

Thank you for this piece, I genuinely was able to reflect on the spiritual reasons I need to release and I plan to meditate deeper on those areas. You helped me know what I need to address and I’m ready!

Thank you! In an Immense Spritual Awakening right now and suffering from Immense Physical Pain and Inner Conflict..your blog spoke to me personally to the mind/body connection and why and how all my Crisises are happening for a reason to shake me to the core, keep me uncomfortable and force me to keep fighting and continue moving forward and finally break free this time. This journey as an Empath and a person who feels too intensely and takes on others pain throughout your lifetime gets taxing and such a drain on you mind, body, spirit and esp your heart and exhausts you. Although you learn new and make progress with every step on the journey it’s really really difficult and exhausting. Your blog spoke to me and pointed out how I am responsible on my own to change my life, my suffering and all my emotions and reactions..this work is so difficult, so lonely and so exhausting but I keep getting reminded by all the affirmations and coincidences that I am going in the right direction and the rewards are so worth it. Growth, learning, awareness and transformation is a calling. Wisdom and Conciousness is a strength and not a weakness. We must Ignore the fact that most can’t handle the Truth or Accept the Challenges that come with the Calling. Those that are called have to put on the Blinders, forge forward and Ignore the Unconconcious to not get Overwhelmed, Discouraged and Disillusioned. It’s in finding pieces like yours and both internal and external validation that you get reminded that you are on the right path, evolving, fighting resistance and finally ‘getting it’ and there is no turning back from all the truth. You are a forever changed and evolved person, like it or not, and it’s freedom and your new normal as an more Enlightened Being.
I just wish the Pain was less Intense and being in the Fire didn’t hurt so much and the ‘Darkness of the Soul’ was less blinding! Thank you! 🙂 xo

Thank you for your very honest, deep and insightful comment. You are so right! As much as we want positive change, our egos want to feel safe on familiar ground. To do that they activate parts in us that are rooted in fear, guilt and shame for wanting something better and in turn that causes immune disorders and pain. At all costs the ego will do everything it can ‘not’ to leave its comfort zone. It’s primary goal is to keep us small, safe and approved by others. The immense pain and inner conflict you mentioned is usually the result of fighting old habitual beliefs and thinking patterns.

The mind/body is continually transmitting and receiving energies flowing in and around it. To get a sense of whether the ego or intuition is talking, intuition comes directly and clearly, while the ego’s voice is indecisive and anxious. Once we become attuned to the beliefs and behaviors that have kept us stuck, we can begin to become more of who we are meant to be and we’ll become stronger at reading the signs that will lead us in new directions. I believe these are the synchronicities and coincidences you spoke of.

Teaching ourselves to pay attention to the information from the body/mind opens the door to energy awareness. Disciplining ourselves means to keep a fraction, just a fraction of our awareness on our bodies at all times. This is what many mean about “being present”. By observing how your body/mind responds to both the outer world of events and to your inner world of thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and emotions, you can begin to make conscious choices that will shape your life for many years to come.

As far as lonely and exhausting, I think I know what you meant, but we both know you are never alone. Many different meditative practices can help create a sense of intimacy, a sense of self-knowledge, vulnerability and openness.

Being an empath is not a dis-order — it’s a ‘gift’ of sensitivity, allowing you to be spiritually attuned to the feeling of others, of being a good listener and generously naturally giving. Empathy becomes a problem when we are so tuned into so much content that when something traumatic happens on the other side of the world, our emotional reactions, can be debilitating and alarming to the body’s energy system. The best way to recover is deep breathing exercises, an epsom salt bath, anything that grounds you and brings you back to loving what’s in front of you. Tuning into the heartbreak of the world can create madness – when we are overly tuned in.

Meditation/visualization, puts us in touch with our inner silence and with the universal flow of life. Most dis-eases are caused by thoughts/feelings and emotions we have about ourselves. Learning how your illness or emotional disease affects you physically, will get your body’s internal defence system to work with you at maximum efficiency. This will speed up your healing process.

The key to positive change is to create a shift in focus from something negative to something positive; as you said affirmations and coincidences.
When we are ill, it’s important we work on a mind/body/spirit level to conquer our problem. All are equally important. Positive thinking and positive emotions are necessary for the mind to work at its fullest potential. Eating right; taking the right supplements, herbs, vitamins and minerals; getting enough rest; doing what right for your body are all significant in helping the body heal itself. The spirit becomes very significant to the whole process; it connects us with something beyond ourselves and helps us become aware of truths we already knew at a deeper level. By putting the egos desire for control aside, we open ourselves to a much deeper wisdom.

Thank you again Antoinette, you have a wonderful gift for writing and telling your story. Go for it!!!! As you heal others, you’ll also receive healing in return ♥

Don’t be too hard on yourself. Sometimes there are specific sections in a book or article that demand rereading. Rereading helps to clear up the confusion just encountered and allows you to ask yourself the question .. “Is the information in this article/passage right for me?” There are 8 billion ‘unique’ people in the world and not everyone with upper back pain is going to relate to this article.

What it can do, is help you focus on getting to know ‘yourself’ better, not on working to think, feel or act differently. As we take time to explore and describe what we’re experiencing (the process of self-exploration) change can begin to happen without even trying. Sometimes we can become aware of quite unexpected aspects of ourselves .. aspects that will aid in the process of ‘redirecting our attention inward’. Coming to know your inner life means coming to know yourself more fully. Give yourself a chance to see what happens.

Make notes to yourself, they’ll help you to experience yourself more fully and they’ll provide a record of your progress one-day-at-a-time. Writing pushes us to clarify our thoughts and it’s an opportunity to make contact with the wisdom that flows within you.

Blessings to you and your insightful wisdom and willingness to share. Is there a way to just release emotions without having to know the exact cause of the original emotion that is causing the shoulder pain? I don’t want to search for the negative and focus on that, thus potentially creating more incidents showing up in my reality. I would like to just release that which I no longer need. How best to open the meridians to let new energy flow? And how best to know when your ego is driving the ship instead of your true self?
Thanks again for sharing!

Thank you so much for your gratitude to this blog and excellent question. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed sharing it with you and the world.

To be honest, I’ve been in the healing field for over 20 years and have never come across any one creating more incidents from releasing past traumas.

I would like to just release that which I no longer need

That’s exactly what we’re doing. Every form of healing calls or beckons us to go within to find our answers, to listen to our hearts and benefit from the wise guidance of our soul/spirit. Shifting our energy to the receptive energy of the body we can re-weave our inner world by turning toward our shadow self and allow ourselves to hear its story. I think that because we’ve been conditioned to fear and resist the dark and unknown, we’re terrified we’ll enter into endings of some kind or suddenly face a dark phase coming into our lives. This is why the ‘dark’ is seen as shrouded in mystery and perceived as threatening. In truth, it is the ability to see beyond the five senses and into deeper subtler levels which can read the body, communicate with it and understand what it’s telling you about your life.

Most of us don’t understand that endings is the precursor for new beginnings; instead we find ourselves frozen in fear or afraid that our lives will be filled with uncertainty, pain and lifetime burdens.

How best to open the meridians to let new energy flow?

There are countless books, videos and web-sites/blogs about the meridians. Donna Eden, introduced “Energy Medicine”, (meridian energy) wrote a book with the same title and has her own website and videos on youtube. I highly recommend her book if you are new to the meridian system.

Each meridian is a pathway of energy that connects between the organs, the tissues and other meridians. They are electromagnetic or ‘electrical’ in nature and run along the surface of your skin. In Chinese medicine the meridians are known are known as acupressure or acupuncture points. And it is these points that energy becomes congested with energy and acts similar to a clogged artery, preventing organs from getting the energy they need.

You can work physically to trace the 12 meridians backwards (flush old energy out) then forwards (fresh energy in), but if the emotional component isn’t addressed, then the same meridian will continue to become clogged again and again. It is just as important to increase your inner awareness, understand it, and use that knowledge for your own personal self-development. All this takes time as you study different healing methods, learn, digest and integrate it to your own understanding. At this point I’m not sure where you are, on your own personal spiritual journey.

How to know when your ego is driving the ship

Every time we find ourselves avoiding something, we are running away from who we are. This is how we know the ego is running the show .. we are caught in an endless cycle of running away. By learning to sit with the uncomfortable, we have the opportunity to gain deep insights into the nature of our suffering.

Thank you so much for this post! I’m experiencing intense pain in my left shoulder and am exploring what this means and how to change my lifestyle to move forward. Your article really resonated with me, and it is encouraging me to dig deeper. I’m learning that pain & sensation is our body’s way of sending us messages at a deeper level. It’s a hard journey to go through, but a necessary one I suppose, as we shift towards our higher selves. It is interesting to be involved in many different channels of healing (bodytalk, massage, yoga, reading & research, meditation) and seeing how interconnected all of this is. Thanks again! This is exactly what I needed to come across today.

I’m thrilled and honored this article has given you the foundation or ‘testing ground’ to begin your quest/search to find the truth to your shoulder pain. One question that may be helpful is .. “what would changing my lifestyle bring to my life? I’ve also seen people manifest amazing changes when they find and change the beliefs they’ve been carrying around since childhood. Whenever I’m stuck or ‘tied in knots’ I ask myself “What am I believing that is limiting my experience?”

When we are living the integrity of our own path, the universe is always there to support us. You have an excellent knowledge of the spiritual world, Cher. Trust that your purpose in this lifetime is prompting you to take the ‘observer’s position’, to stand back and feel or intuit a deeper purpose behind what’s going on.

Very very helpful knowledge about shoulder pain. I really came to know about our pains in a very simple language. I became more aware and conscious about our emotions which we generally dont show or unable to express. Thank you so much. 🙏🙏🙏👌👌👌😊.Rupali

Hi,
This was so informative. I have been searching for years trying to figure out what was/is going on with my left arm, shoulder blade, heart, spleen, neck, etc… This was so good. I have wittled this down over the years to significantly less than it was but it is still there. It’s not really a pain but a weirdness. I can sometimes feel it in the gym. Now, the key with this information is to figure how the best way to heal this. Again, I have been working at this for years. Any suggestions would be great. Gonna’ send this via email, too.

What a well researched and informative article! Thank you for taking the time to share this information! I completely resonate with this and had a feeling my recent shoulder spasms were much more than physical (and related to life path issues). Now I need to do the hard work and figure out why, the moment I think I have finally resolved my life path crisis and am moving in a direction I am excited about, the shoulder pain is starting again. Is it really NOT the right direction or is it the fears of my ego speaking its peace? Hmmm. Thanks again for the great food for thought!

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts to this article and to others reading this as well.

In regard to your shoulder pain starting when you ‘think’ you’ve resolved something .. could it be you’re not sure just exactly where or how to begin this new direction? Do you lack trust in making decisions? Do you dither around and procrastinate? Are you second-guessing your motives.
Or maybe you’re asserting your aggressive (male) side which represses your feminine intuitive side? Maybe you’re trying to control your fears through bold or forceful actions?

When we believe we have found a new direction in life, we start to feel fearful and insecure .. we begin to feel a threat to our security and we resist change. We start thinking what of the lifestyle I’ve already created .. do I want to rock the boat? Obviously you want to put together something that is solid and steady, and of course when we continually ‘think’ .. we start worrying about all the things that could go wrong.

Once you’ve made a decision to go in a certain direction .. there’s always a grace period .. a waiting period. This allows you ‘wanting something’ to formulate with your spirit and with the life-force itself. Instead of asking others if you’re on track .. turn inward and ask yourself. At this point others will only confuse you. Wait with the knowing your spirit will inspire or guide you to the next step. Once on the next step, stay totally aware to how life approaches you … what’s on the news, what did you read in a book or article today .. what message did a friend just give you .. where did you go after work today .. what new street did you turn on .. what animal or bird did you see … these are all guideposts to the next step of your next venture!

Just because something doesn’t take off right away, doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen. Relax with it, get the clutter out of your mind as all this does is block your inner guidance. Take a walk in nature, swim, meditate, become one with your surroundings … and they will guide you … ♥